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> we see users just outright refusing to pay I’m not convinced this is true. Surveillance/Market insight/whatever is just too lucrative. There’s plenty of exa
by rusk 7y ago
> we see users just outright refusing to pay
I’m not convinced this is true. Surveillance/Market insight/whatever is just too lucrative.
There’s plenty of examples of company’s that make a living by charging for a service but for a company like facebook, for example, excluding users runs counter to their whole business model.
“Charging” customers is hassle. If you can find a way to monetise without all that icky hassle, you will.
- fouric 7y ago> Surveillance/Market insight/whatever is just too lucrative. Citation needed. Individual users' data is, last time I checked, relatively low-value - isn't the Facebook ARPU less than $10?
- rusk 7y agoHow many users?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIn case this wasn't a rhetorical question: billions. "1.59 billion daily active users on Facebook on average for June 2019; 2.41 billion monthly active users on Facebook as of June 30, 2019" Source: https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/ https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/.
- rusk 7y agoIt was :) They’re not hard sums to do.